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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
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"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self - absorption and self - sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
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"Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention."
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"The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
Sea
"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
Comfort
"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
Virtue
"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
Heaven
"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
Time
"A closed mouth catches no flies."
Leadership
"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
God
"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
Music
"Virtue is the truest nobility."
Virtue
"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
War
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